<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For Mel (villanelle)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The one who should have lived has gone so fast.<br> The old ones, in their dotage, linger on – <br> they, with no future, live only in the past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we who can but sit, dumb and aghast, <br>scarcely believe that while the sun still shone<br>the one who should have lived has gone so fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Six decades older, surviving to their last<br>few days or years, together but alone, <br>they, with no future, live only in the past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least she kept on living to the last, <br>but should have had a future. She has none.<br>The one who should have lived has gone so fast, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and they, for whom so many years have passed, <br>are unaware that one they loved is gone.<br>They, with no future, live only in the past, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">mark time until the final trumpet blast, <br>and never know the respite they have won.<br>The one who should have lived has gone so fast.<br>They, with no future, live only in the past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hansford">Paul Hansford</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553025" data-title="For Mel (villanelle) de Paul Hansford" data-description="The one who should have lived has gone so fast. The old ones, in their dotage, linger on – they, with no future, live only in the past. And we who can but sit, dumb and aghast, scarcely believe that while the sun still shone the one who sho..."></div> </div> </div>

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